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From Merry-Go-Round to Meaningful: Building a Coaching Practice in the Middle East - Part 1 of 3
Beyond Models, Markers and Powerful Questions: What Coaching Mastery Really Requires
Why LEGO Serious Play Is the Creative Problem Solving Tool Managers Didn’t Know They Needed - Part 1 of 2
Coaching Life Podcast Set to Give Every Coach a Voice
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Why Coaches Should Consider Adding LEGO® Serious Play® to Their Toolkit - Part 2 of 2
I first encountered LEGO Serious Play about ten years ago. What stood out was not the novelty of the materials, but the way the methodology helped people think differently, surface assumptions and talk about complex issues with more openness and clarity.
From Merry-Go-Round to Meaningful: Building a Coaching Practice in the Middle East - Part 1 of 3
I had spent years in the corporate world in Australia and then the UK - essentially moving money through business development and marketing roles, managing projects, and supporting organisations and teams to function more efficiently. I met wonderful people everywhere I went, and it paid well. And it also left me feeling deeply hollow.
Beyond Models, Markers and Powerful Questions: What Coaching Mastery Really Requires
After more than two decades in coaching, thousands of hours in the coaching chair, and many more spent mentoring, assessing and educating coaches, I have become increasingly convinced of something that may sound slightly provocative: We can teach people the mechanics of coaching relatively quickly. Developing a coach is something else entirely.
Sports
Technocoach
Optimizing the Use of Technology in Effective Sports Coaching.
Grand Final Coaching
GRAND FINAL GRABS – WHAT I’VE LEARNT ABOUT PEOPLE AND PERFORMANCE UNDER PRESSURE.
Coaching the Grand Final
After an excellent article written around Matt Wilkie, IRFU’s head of coach development, it pushed me down a rabbit hole, looking at how we can adjust our focus to the how and whom we coach, rather than the specific content, or focusing solely on the what aspects such as technical, tactical and stra
Business
Why Coaches Should Consider Adding LEGO® Serious Play® to Their Toolkit - Part 2 of 2
I first encountered LEGO Serious Play about ten years ago. What stood out was not the novelty of the materials, but the way the methodology helped people think differently, surface assumptions and talk about complex issues with more openness and clarity.
Australian Coaches Need an AI Transition Map, Not an Automation Forecast
Australian professionals are getting two messages at once. AI capability is moving quickly into ordinary work, while nobody can give a reliable answer to the question many employees care about most: What happens to my job?
Federico Re on resilience, reinvention and the power of quiet ambition
From engineering to entrepreneurship and coaching, Federico Re has built a career on family values, creative thinking and the belief that success often begins by embracing uncertainty.
Life
From Merry-Go-Round to Meaningful: Building a Coaching Practice in the Middle East - Part 1 of 3
I had spent years in the corporate world in Australia and then the UK - essentially moving money through business development and marketing roles, managing projects, and supporting organisations and teams to function more efficiently. I met wonderful people everywhere I went, and it paid well. And it also left me feeling deeply hollow.
Beyond Models, Markers and Powerful Questions: What Coaching Mastery Really Requires
After more than two decades in coaching, thousands of hours in the coaching chair, and many more spent mentoring, assessing and educating coaches, I have become increasingly convinced of something that may sound slightly provocative: We can teach people the mechanics of coaching relatively quickly. Developing a coach is something else entirely.
Coaching the Constructive Conflict Mindset
We spend a great deal of time preparing people for difficult conversations. We give them scripts, techniques and sensible advice. Everybody knows to use "I" statements and ask open questions. Yet in thirty years of mediation and conflict coaching, I have watched capable people walk into a conflict conversation carrying all the right tools and unable to use any of them.
Specialty
Why LEGO Serious Play Is the Creative Problem Solving Tool Managers Didn’t Know They Needed - Part 1 of 2
I first stumbled across LEGO Serious Play about a decade ago. At the time, my initial reaction was admittedly light-hearted: imagine having a tax-deductible LEGO collection. I laughed, parked the idea, and moved on. It wasn’t until years later, while leading a major national reform, that LEGO Serious Play re-entered my world in a far more meaningful way.
Identify a news angle
The messages I receive from small business owners usually start the same - “I’ve tried to contact a whole lot of newspapers giving them this great story, but…
Is Your Career in Focus? Coaching and Procrastination
As a career coach, my client’s needs differ, with common themes being career change, professional development coaching and also coaching to become experts in…
Career
Coaching Life Podcast Set to Give Every Coach a Voice
Our new audio series will spotlight the stories behind coaching, explore the issues shaping the profession, and give coaches a stronger voice across Australia’s life, employment, corporate, community and sporting sectors.
From Resistance to Mastery: Trusting the Coaching Competencies
Many practitioners - whether newly trained or working toward advanced credentialing admit they sometimes experience the coaching competencies as limiting.
Q&A with MCC and Coach Course Leader at ACAP University College, Mark Setch
If you’ve spent a long time in the professional coaching industry, chances are you have come across Mark Setch. Coaching Course Leader at the Australian College for Applied Professions (ACAP) University College, Mark is an MCC, clocking up thousands of hours across his career.
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